Rich Fury via Getty Images Advocate Lizzie Velasquez speaks on stage at the 2018 Girlboss Rally at Magic Box on April 28, 2018. But a new one, the so-called “FaceTime Prank,” is just cruel — and it’s damaging for a number of different reasons. Author and disability advocate Lizzie Velasquez called out the prank on her own TikTok account on Sunday. Velasquez came across someone using her own image, as a way to scare a child. “For so long I thought that what defined me was my outer appearance,” she said in a 2013 TED Talk.

Source: Huffington Post August 11, 2020 21:33 UTC